To Clinton's Presidency,

Whitewater Is A Footnote

March 25, 1994

The political excesses we have witnessed leading up to appointment of a special counsel in the Whitewater affair are disgraceful. The spectacle of Sen. D'Amato, that paragon of political probity, acting as point man in the Republican effort to discredit the Clinton presidency is disgusting, as is the dolorous Sen. Dole, slowly inching toward the 1996 presidential primary, in his self-serving effort to make personal political capital.

Those rapacious Repubicans who have feasted so ravenously on Bill and Hillary Clinton should now back off and let the hearings take their course. When all the participants have been heard and all the facts are known, it will be time to make judgment. There is no question that mistakes were made, and so far, no evidence of wrongdoing.

When all is said and all is done, Whitewater will not be the history of the Clinton presidency, but merely a footnote. It is time to concentrate on the business of running the government.